Superman lip-locks with man in ‘Porno’? You betcha!
Billy Masters "I think it's pretty obvious who I'm seeing. I think it's no shock to anyone that it's been going on for quite some time. She's a wonderful person and I love her very [...]
Billy Masters "I think it's pretty obvious who I'm seeing. I think it's no shock to anyone that it's been going on for quite some time. She's a wonderful person and I love her very [...]
Smokey The Bear said it best: "Only YOU can prevent forest fires." Apparently, you can also start them, just by being gay. And no, not because you look smokin' hot in your 2Xist boxer briefs. [...]
by John Corvino The Gay Moralist Proposition 8 passed, revoking marriage rights for gays and lesbians in California and setting back the gay-rights movement throughout the country. So did similar bans in Florida and Arizona, [...]
Parting Glances It was totally unexpected. Shocking. Downright naughty, even. Yet so deliciously thrilling to the hundreds of angry gays who just happened to be watching a late Des Moines TV newscast 31 years ago. [...]
By Jasmyne A. Cannick Iam a perfect example of why the fight against Proposition 8, which amends the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, failed to win black support. I am black. I am a [...]
by Wayne Besen Anything But Straight Few people at the three Proposition 8 protest rallies I attended - two in New York and one in Chicago - were familiar. The ones I recognized were the [...]
Every long-term, committed couple experiences periods of doubt about their relationship - where one feels unappreciated or ignored, or the romantic fires have been inexplicably extinguished. But can even the most loving and dedicated pair [...]
By Richard Labonte "The Boomerang Kid," by Jay Quinn. Alyson Books, 292 pages, $24.95 hardcover. Kai Ostryder has his good days and his bad days. When he's on the pills that hold his bipolar demons [...]
Jerks make Denis O'Hare tick - but not like they do most people. He gravitates toward them, and vice versa, which is the Michigan native's reason for spending the latter portion of his cameo career [...]
NEW THIS WEEK Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa When onetime Central Park Zoo residents - lion Alex (voiced by Ben Stiller), zebra Marty (Chris Rock), hippo Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith), and giraffe Melman (David Schwimmer) - [...]
Nude photographer David Leddick's October-released book, "The Nude Male: 21st Century Visions," examines society's ever-changing attitude toward the naked male form. Here, in an e-mail interview with him, Leddick examines the advancement of the art [...]
Hiller's Market chefs recommend this delicious additional to anyone's holiday dinner table. Be sure to use only the highest quality ingredients! Sweet Potato And Roasted Mushroom Stuffing This dish features large cubes of French bread [...]
DETROIT - In spite of dire predications for our economy, the spirit of giving is not lost in our city. One of Detroit's long-standing landmarks, The Majestic, 4120 Woodward Ave, Detroit, will host a benefit [...]
A butch in the kitchen? A new cookbook "The Butch Cook Book" edited by Lee Lynch, Sue Hardesty and Nel Ward, seeks to provide glimpses into butch life and lore as well as novel culinary [...]
By Jack Fertig Horoscopes The Sun in Scorpio turns everyone's erotic self-awareness up a notch. Its current aspect to Scorpio's ruler, Pluto, now in Sagittarius, adds another notch, and a taste for adventure. But it [...]
Q Puzzle Across 1 Shore of Palm Springs 6 Cross-dressing 10 Was active in B&D 14 "My Own Private ___ " 15 Baldwin staffer 16 Victim of Jacob's tricks 17 Blues singer into the arts? [...]
Nice Creep of the Week article on Maggie Gallagher (Nov. 13). Being someone that identifies as trans and does a lot of trans and intersex education I run into a lot of "Biology is destiny" [...]
by Jessica Carreras On Saturday, Nov. 22, the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan will host their annual dinner at the Hyatt Regency of Dearborn. During the event, ACLU staff will speak about the election [...]
LANSING - Officials from the Eaton County Sheriff's Department and the Delta Township Fire department are contradicting reports about a Nov. 9 protest held at Mt. Hope Church. The protest on Nov. 9 was held [...]
by Rex Wockner City officials in Minsk, Belarus, banned a planned gay demonstration at the Russian Embassy, Gay.ru reported Oct. 27. The group BelQueer hoped to protest the "growing number of cases of violation of [...]
by Rex Wockner A concert by Jamaican reggae singer Capleton was canceled by organizers in Basel, Switzerland, on Nov. 6. The groups Homosexuelle Arbeitsgruppen Basel and Stop Murder Music Bern had opposed the concert "because [...]
by Rex Wockner Some government officials in attendance at the recent annual meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS called for repeal of laws that criminalize gay sex as a pathway to slowing the [...]
by Rex Wockner Hungary's Parliament passed legislation in early November extending hate-crime laws to cover members "of a social group" and making it possible to initiate civil proceedings against someone who engages in degrading or [...]
by Rex Wockner A recent ICM Research survey conducted for the United Kingdom's National Adoption Week revealed a high degree of resistance to adoption by gay couples. The poll of 1,007 people found that 40 [...]
by Rex Wockner The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence has paid $6.2 million to people who were kicked out of the armed forces before the gay ban was lifted in 2000, officials said Nov. 7. [...]
KALAMAZOO - The city commission of Kalamazoo took a giant step towards passing a civil rights ordinance that protects LGBT people from discrimination in housing employment and public accommodations. On Monday evening, the commission voted [...]
LANSING - Sylvia Guerrero clutches her styrofoam coffee cup and stares out with blue grey eyes and a steely determination forged during the emotional wreckage that happened six years ago. Guerrero was in Lansing at [...]
By Bob Roehr Delaying the start of HIV therapy increases the risk of death by 70 percent, according to an analysis of data from all 22 HIV cohort studies in the United States and Canada. [...]
by Rex Wockner Forty-four California legislators filed a brief with the state Supreme Court on Nov. 10 urging that Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment that voters passed to re-ban same-sex marriage, be overturned. Signers included [...]
by Rex Wockner Large grassroots protests against Proposition 8 have continued across California since Nov. 4, some drawing 10,000 or more participants in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco. Smaller, but still sizable, protests [...]
by Rex Wockner Same-sex couples began marrying in Connecticut on Nov. 12 after final judgment was entered in a case decided by the state Supreme Court on Oct. 10. In a 4-3 ruling, the court [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service The LGBT movement seems determined not to make the same mistakes with the administration of President-Elect Barack Obama that it made with President Bill Clinton back in 1992. There [...]
by Bob Roehr "We must actively address the growing HIV/AIDS pandemic in the United States," said Robert C. Gallo, the co-discoverer of the HIV virus, in a column in the Nov. 16 edition of the [...]
by Bob Roehr Patrick Sammon will be leaving Log Cabin Republican at the end of January after five years with the organization, the last half as its executive director. Earlier in the year he had [...]
by Rex Wockner California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told CNN on Nov. 9 that the state Supreme Court may well "undo" Proposition 8, the voter initiative that re-banned same-sex marriage Nov. 4 by amending the state [...]
by Rex Wockner An estimated 7,500 to 15,000 people marched through Manhattan Nov. 12 protesting California's Proposition 8, the voter-passed initiative that amended the state constitution Nov. 4 to end same-sex marriage, which had been [...]
LANSING - In a late night session Nov. 13, the Michigan House passed a package of two bills to expand the state's ethnic intimidation act. Under House Bills 6340 and 6341, bias motivated crimes would [...]
by Jessica Carreras She almost died of malaria. She posed as a nude model for an art class. She makes a mean plate of tapas. And yes, she has reenacted the infamous "pottery" scene from [...]
EAST LANSING - With a light wind and temperatures hoovering just above freezing, 150 people gathered at Michigan State University to join in an international protest of the passage of California's Proposition 8. "This event [...]
by Jessica Carreras On Saturday, over 1,500 LGBT and allied Michiganders braved the harsh winter weather to be part of a nationwide protest for gay rights that spanned every state and brought people in all [...]
In the 1960s, the U.S. was raging with emotions concerning social justice. Women's rights, civil rights and anti-war sentiments dominated the thoughts and actions of many young, hip activists. Then came gay rights and the [...]
By Robert Bethune Doing Stoppard is like doing Shaw - an avalanche of words that harden around you, and there's no escape. The answer is movement, physical and mental - swim or die! Director Joe [...]
Metro Detroit got a whole lot funnier Nov. 12 with the opening of Go Comedy! Improv Theater in fabulous downtown Ferndale. Filling the gap left by the closure of Ann Arbor's Improv Inferno and The [...]
By D. A. Blackburn Incest, molestation and pedophilia are subjects that tend to make people recoil in horror, but the University Detroit Mercy Theatre Company's latest production, "How I learned To Drive," puts them squarely [...]
by Jessica Carreras In a small gathering of friends and community members at Dino's restaurant in Ferndale, Midwest AIDS Prevention Project's CEO Craig Covey and Michigan AIDS Fund's CEO Dave Coulter announced a historic merger [...]